One wife’s talks about when she came to realise that her man was hurting just like herself.
Hannah blogs about her journey to motherhood, longing for kids with unexplained infertility.
Her post was titled ‘HUSBANDS ARE HURTING TOO’. It was published between Mother’s day and Father’s day.
The depth of my husband’s grief hadn’t fully sunk in to me before this time last year. Don’t get me wrong, I knew that infertility was tearing him apart inside more and more the longer it dragged on, and that it was as painful for him as it was for me, but he very rarely expressed his emotions with it. And then last year on Father’s Day, the day that was already the worst day of the year for my husband, an insensitive and badly timed pregnancy announcement was made right to his face by people who knew about our infertility. It hit so close to home more than any other pregnancy announcement had and it hurt so deeply. My husband put on such a brave face, but we both felt as though we’d been stabbed in the heart. And when we were finally alone at home, he just broke down and sobbed in my arms. When you want something so beautiful and good so much with everything in you and you can’t have it and there’s nothing you can do about it, it’s devastating whether you’re male or female, so you better believe husbands hurt too.
Hannah wanted to support, sensitivity, and empathy towards men as well as women–because husbands are hurting too.
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